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by brk 5y ago
Wired magazine used to feature an odd mailed item each month, which included a coconut, among other things. Some of them were pretty cool and creative. Many would likely cause some kind of terror alert if attempted today: https:/&#x2F
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by brk 5y ago
It's also one of several homes. While it's very nice (I've been to it), he has nicer properties elsewhere. I sometimes think he maintains that house for novelty more than anything else.
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by brk 5y ago
Is this certified on any carrier networks? Is it intended to be a component of a final solution, or is it more of a reference design? This looks/feels like an uncertified reference design, which is OK, but I'm trying to gauge appl
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by brk 5y ago
I used to do a lot of product demos that involved network equipment. All the patch cables I carried were either pink or purple. They were never confused with customer cables, and I do not ever recall one of them being stolen.
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by brk 5y ago
I disagree. I personally think it would be less of an issue if it wasn't treated as such a taboo topic. Particularly in America, many people get far too worked up (IMO) about basic issues of sexuality or displays of anything mildly ero
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by brk 5y ago
I think it came down to a single flag that gets set by the video chip for any two objects that collide. Once the flag is set, the game code needs to figure out which two sprite objects in the scene could have possibly collided. Some time el
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by brk 5y ago
No, it was much longer ago, especially for pre-RGB applications. OLEDs came about in the late 80's, and mono displays started showing up in the 90s (I think one of my early flip phones had an OLED exterior display). RGB units were demo
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by brk 5y ago
I remember using odd/unprintable characters in those BBS games for my username. There was one (spacewars?) where you got a bounty, but had to type in the characters name to claim the bounty, people would complain they could not collect
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Restaurants Are Adding Equity Charges to Customers Checks to Fight Oppression(fee.org)
11 points by brk 5y ago|12 comments
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by brk 5y ago
This general concept has existed for a while, and the monitoring is often done in the US. The basic premise is to use video analytics to spot anomalies, most commonly along the lines of people jumping a fence to a secured property, and then
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by brk 5y ago
That kind of used to be the way it worked, but not for the last several years. Now you are generally expected to know about the tax laws and requirements for the customers region and collect and submit tax accordingly. Avalara ( https:&#x2F
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by brk 5y ago
Good point. In my experience, the higher earning potential can be maintained, though overall salary growth is lower, as you start to hit a bit of a theoretical earnings ceiling. Though, that is generally of limited consequence when you&#x27
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by brk 5y ago
IMO, when used is real life scenarios actual users would start to find the unique patterns and visuals in each one. It is hard to evaluate this as a passive viewer with no vested interest in any of the names/avatars as they are present
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by brk 5y ago
Technically it's "implemented" as a javascript library that you can edit and customize to fit your specific needs and use cases. Just because the default example is based on one set of assumptions does not mean the project is
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by brk 5y ago
I think that most high income earners stay at that stage for the majority of their career after reaching that level. While I know there are exceptions and odd examples, IMO people in general have little desire to take a large pay cut, so if
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by brk 5y ago
I remember running a FIDOnet node for a while in the late 80's/early 90's timeframe. Figuring out long distance vs. local prefixes and next-hop's was half of the fun of it. Routing data long distances while evading long-
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by brk 5y ago
I probably should have said "a commonly used or understood root word".
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by brk 5y ago
Very interesting, thanks. I have some Irish friends and we've both commented to each other that it seemed to be somewhat unique to Indian English speakers, makes me wonder more about it. And in a sense, yes, I was intending to over-gen
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by brk 5y ago
I think some of the confusion is that "pone" is not a root word or term. So, the opposite of postpone is not prepone, in the same way that prepartum is the opposite of postpartum.
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by brk 5y ago
There is such a thing as Indian English If there is one phrase that, to me, defines Indian English, I think it would be "do the needful". For American English speakers, I think the first time you hear/see that, it is totall
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by brk 5y ago
This works when your product is something that is B2C or a very B2B direct-sale/SaaS kind of thing. It does not work as well, IME, when you are selling something more enterprise-y or selling through a channel, where the social media an
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by brk 6y ago
Roughly the same scenario. Was buying new laptops (3) for me and a new team. We looked into M1, but need to do some things like run Parallels/Windows, and underlying software, that we didn't have enough confidence yet would work a
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by brk 6y ago
Fair point, but I don't recall Flash "things" ever being usable in anything other than some form of a Flash Player, so if the player was suboptimal, it kinda ruins the whole thing, no?
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by brk 6y ago
Flash needs to come back. I always associate Flash with security issues and massive resource utilization. While it made some thing easier to implement on a page, the "applet" concept of embedded things like Flash and Java also s
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by brk 6y ago
One of my neighbors contacted me early on in the pandemic about buying a gun as well. I told him, if things get to that level, just bring your family to my house because you're not going to go from never-owned-a-gun to sufficient-at-se
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by brk 6y ago
In short, yes it is. The concept of having a predictable recurring bill, and known costs can have a lot of value. In the opex hardware model, there is usually a hardware refresh built in (a lease of sorts) and also covered replacements for
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by brk 6y ago
This isn't a short conversation, but you can contact me offline and I can give you some pointers.
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by brk 6y ago
The biggest selling point is really the OPEX sales model, and outsourcing of the general care-and-feeding of the recorders/servers. The tradeoff is that you tend to get lesser quality video and/or less scalability of the size of t
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by brk 6y ago
I started this list when I was part of IPVM: https://ipvm.com/reports/security-exploits It's probably missing some, and is specific to security cameras, but it is a start.
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New “metalens” shifts focus without tilting or moving(news.mit.edu)
3 points by brk 6y ago|0 comments

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